Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 52, John Gibson, Va. Sea Service

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va. Sea Service
Gibson, John
R 52
CONTENTS
Va. Half Pay
See Acc. No. 837 Virginia State Navy John Gibson Pg 5 File Va. Half Pay

Nº 52
ACT OF FEBRUARY 14, 1871.
WAR OF 1812.
1 2 7 very
John Gibson Master
Barbary Revolution
Discharged _____, 18
11-0
4027
Admitted
7 1/2 Pay — act 3.2
Received _____, 18
• Attorney.
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John Gibson Esq. Chalfrey May Decr 10. 1849
John Gibson Esq. Chalfrey May
John Gibson Esq. Chalfrey May
Decr 10

Pension Office
December 10. 1849
Upon an appeal from the decision of this Office, the Secretary of the Interior has decided that half-pay under the act of July 5: 1832 should be allowed in the case of John Gibson deceased as a sailing-master in the Virginia State Navy from the 22 d of April 1783 to the first of January 1790, in which year he died. The amount is payable at the rate of one hundred and fifty-two dollars and eight cents, per annum to Francis A. Dickinson,  attorney of Joseph Segar, attorney of William B. Lamb, of Norfolk, Virginia, administrator of John Gibson, deceased. The draft to be delivered to Francis A. Dickinson, substitute of Joseph Segar.
Commissioner of Pensions
Approved
Secretary of the Interior
Entered in Book at 5 July 1832

13/82
John Gibson.
act 5 July 1832.
Filed by F. H. Dickinson, 12 March 1858.

Washington 12 March 1880
Sir,
As the Attorney of Joseph Segar Esq. who is the Attorney of W m B. Lamb Esq. Administrator on the estate of John Gibson de d . who was a Sailing Master in the Virginia State Navy and whose claim for half pay has been paid, under the act of Congress of the 5 th July 1832. I have the honour to apply for commutation with interest, giving credit for the half pay heretofore received. — For evidence establishing this claim I respectfully refer to the documents upon which the half pay was allowed. —
Yours very respectfully Francis A. Dickinson.
James L. Edwards Esq. Com r . of Pensions.

Department of the Interior. OFFICIAL BUSINESS.
Commissioner of Pensions
John D. [unclear] 20/10 10/10/10
John Gibson 10/10/10

OFFICIAL BUSINESS THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE.
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
Dec 12/49 John Gibbons del.

Treasury Department Third Auditor's Office December 11. 1849
Sir
The decision in the case of half pay of John Gibson deceased, dated 10 th Inst., appears to have been made upon an appeal to the Secretary of the Interior from a decision of your Office, but I do not find the documents exhibiting those transactions amongst the papers sent to this Office.
As all papers upon which payments have been made through this Office, are, under Law, filed here, it would seem to be proper that all those which are necessary to a full elucidation of cases, both as to the course of their examination and their final disposition, should be sent here to be filed, as well as that the Accounting Officers may be possessed of all the facts & documents upon which money has been paid, and in case of future reference be able to furnish, entire, the papers relating to each claim.
I would therefore respectfully request that you would furnish me with the appeal made by the claimant from your decision, and the decision of the Secretary of the Interior upon said appeal, in the case of John Gibson decd., (or copies of them) to be placed on file with the other papers of said claim.
Very Respectfully
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
Your Obedt Servt J. S. Gallagher, 3 d Audt.

✓ Department of the Interior Washington
October 17 th 1849.
Sir,
I enclose herewith a copy of a letter sent to this Department by Francis A. Dickinson Esq d , in which you acknowledge the receipt of a certain paper in the case of John Gibson deceased.
That paper does not appear among those transmitted to the Department with your letter of the 13 th September.
I am Sir, very respectfully Your Ob t . Servant,
D. C. Sodder Acting Secretary
Commissioner of Pensions.

Copy.
Pension Office,
September 13 th 1849.
Sir,
The paper which you deposited here containing what purports to be copies of the affidavits of William Jennings and Susan Rudd, have been examined. The statements which they have made are not important, and cannot remove the objections to the claim of the representatives of John Gibson. But even if their affidavits were very material in the case, the paper referred could not be admitted as evidence. The original affidavits, and not copies, must be produced.
Record or documentary evidence as to the service of John Gibson, as sailing master in the Virginia State Navy is indispensably necessary in order to substantiate the claim to half pay under the Act of July 5 th 1832. The simple fact that bounty land was granted for John Gibson's service unverified by other proof, amounts to nothing. The State in many instances granted bounty land upon proof which we could not admit as evidence.
I am, respectfully,
Your Ob t . Servant,
(Signed) J. G. Edwards, Comm r . of Pensions.
H. H. Dickinson Esq r Present.

John Gibson
a.

These are to certify that the bearer hereof Jn o Gylson has served in the Navy of this State as a Seaman & Gunner upwards of five years and the later part of his time as Sailing Master of the State Boat Liberty. Given under my hand this 1 st day of May 1783.
J. Barron
Com: S.N.
Executive Department June 13 1837
The above is a true copy of a paper filed in this Department Henry Richardson by Wm

1 Augt 27/4 John Gibson
Conway
Augt 12 Sept. 49
F A Dickins

Washington 25 Augt. 1849
Sir,
Enclosed I have the honour to present to you farther evidence in support of the claim of the legal representative of John Gibson, under the act of 5 th July 1832. - This claim was rejected by you as not being satisfactorily shown to have been embraced by the law. - I hope you will find the evidence now enclosed satisfactory. -
Very Respectfully, Francis A. Dickinson.
James L. Edwards Esq Com: of Pensions.

Colo. Edwards Conour. Pensions Present.

Washington, Octo. 17 th 1879
My dear Sir,
Please excuse my importunity in repeating my request that you transmit to the Secretary of the Interior, as early as possible, the unfiled affidavits of Jennings & Rudd, in the case of John Gibson's application for half pay.
Allow me to assure you that I thus urge this matter upon you exclusively on account of Mrs. Fraille, the Wife of Gibson, who is exceedingly poor and heavily afflicted, and who, I may say, has been living upon hope for the last few years.
For her sake, I wish the case disposed of definitely in some way or other, and to that end have to ask the favor that you will, with all convenient despatch, forward to the Secretary of the Interior, the missing documents.
Please give this your early and favorable consideration, while I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Colo. Edwards, Comm. Pensions
2 No. 087. Serot.
J. S. Edgar.